EDITOR’S NOTE: Over 50 local, Tillamook County community members signed a request to the TSD#9 School Board to reverse the book ban. Local people continue to be added to the list ……
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OLD TILLAMOOK TIMES – “Dear Folks” Series #2: As Ever, Sherry
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the next few weeks, we will be sharing entries from Old Tillamook Times, provided by Sandi Burgess Botten Dean, featuring Karen Kranweiss Nudelman’s blog in which she describes the…
Tillamook School District Ignores Requests to Reverse Book Ban from Parents, Community Members
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook School District #9 School Board meeting is Monday September 9th at 5:30pm. There is NOT an agenda item about reversing the ban on “How the Garcia Girls Lost…
OP/ED: Public Engagement, Transparency and Justice Are Promoted in Rockaway Beach
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rockaway Beach Mayor Charles McNeilly provided a report about the city’s recent lawsuit in which the judge decided in favor of the City. One of the plaintiffs, Justin McMahan, also…
Dear Stranger letter campaign comes to the Tillamook County Library
For 10 years, Oregon Humanities’ Dear Stranger project has invited Oregonians to exchange letters with people they’ve never met. Since 2014, more than 1,000 people have sent letters to Dear Stranger and received letters…
Letter to Editor: Water Rates Comparison of Three Villages
Having read the discussions about water rates in Manzanita, I was curious about how we, as a town, compare to our neighbors. Until 2024, Manzanita hadn’t raised its rates in about nine…
SHORT FILMS RETURN TO NEHALEM, SATURDAY, SEP. 7
The McMinnville Short Film Festival will offer a pop-up screening of five environmental or documentary short films at the North County Recreation District Performing Arts Center in Nehalem on Saturday, Sep. 7 at…
OREGON DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (DEQ): Air quality advisory for much of Oregon through Sunday Sept. 8th
(Sept. 6, 2024) QUICK FACTS Location: Clackamas, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, northern Klamath, northern Lake, northern Malheur counties End date: Through Sunday for western Oregon, until further notice for central and eastern Oregon Smoke source: Fires…
OP/ED: Citizens’ Rights in Rockaway Beach – A Fight for Justice
EDITOR’S NOTE: This op/ed is a response to Rockaway Beach Mayor Charles McNeilly’s report on the recent lawsuit brought by several Rockaway Beach citizens about how city council positions are chosen in…
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS – LETTER TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Over 700 signatures to bring back Garcia Girls
September 3, 2024 Dear Tillamook School Board Members, We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, are writing to oppose the removal of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents from your district’s 10th-grade…
